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No. 770,415. PATENTED 311F120, 1904. z. BEAUDRY.

MACHINE FOR SETTING,' TRIMMING, AND BURNISHING THE SOLES AND HEELS OF BOOTS 0R SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED .TAN.'15, 1903. N0 MODEL. I 4 SHEETS-SHEBT 1.

Sum 4i fwanton No. 770,415 PATENTED SEPT-20, 1904 Z. BEAUDRY.

MACHINE FOR SETTING, TRIMMING, AND BURN ISHING THE SOLES AND HEELS 0F B00138 OR SHOES.

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Zflznesaes No. 770,415. PATENTED SEPT. 20,1904;

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Patented September 20, 1904 PATENT OFFICE.

ZOTIQUE BEAUDRY, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR SETTING, TRIMMING, AND BURNISHING THE SOLES AND HEELS OF BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,415, dated September 20, 1904,

Application filed January 15,1903. Serial No. 139,173. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZOTIQUE BEAUDRY, of

Lynn, Essex county, Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Setting, Trimming, and Burnishing the Soles and Heels of Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which This invention relates to a machine for trimming and setting or burnishing the edges of the soles and heels of boots and shoes, the same being constructed to use different styles of rotary tools, such as edge-trimmers or edgesetters, according as it is desired to trim the edge of a sole or set or burnish it.

The object of the invention is to provide a strong, practical, and easily operated machine in which the shoe is clamped, preferably to a jack, and the rotary tool is journaled upon a frame so constructed that it is perfectly ,fiexible and free to be moved by the hand of the operator longitudinally or transversely of the sole of the shoe which is being operated upon.

In operation the shoe is clamped to a jack in such a manner that it may be rocked thereon, while the rotary tool, either the cutter or edge setter, is carried around the edge of the sole. The operator carries the sole-edge setter from the shank portion on one side of the shoe to the shank portion on the opposite side thereof by rocking the frame upon which the rotary tool is journaled in one direction, While the shoe is rotated on the jack in the same general plane as said rotary tool, but in the opposite direction thereto. After trimming or setting the edge of the fore part of the sole the shank is treated in a similar manner by swinging the frame upon which the rotary tool is supported laterally with relation to the shoe until the periphery of another rotary tool is brought in alinement with the edge of the shank of the shoe-sole, whereupon said tool is brought down in contact with the edge of said shank-sole upon opposite sides of the shoe in a manner hereinafter fully described.

The object of the invention is therefore to supply a machine in which the rotary tool or tools are journaled upon a frame which is uni versally movable in all directions, but which is spring-supported, so that it will remain in the same position when the operator is not moving it about the shoe sole or heel.

The invention consists in a machine of the character described, comprising in its construction a swinging frame having four sides, each of said sides pivotally supported at the opposite ends thereof and comprising substantially a parallelogram pivoted to rock in a vertical plane, one of said sides comprising in its construction a tool-frame pivoted to swing horizontally upon said swing-frame and a rotary tool journaled upon said tool-frame.

The invention finally consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved edge setting and trimming machine. Fig. 1 is an enlarged detail section taken on line 1 1*, Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is a side elevation taken from the right of Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the cutter-frame carrier broken away to save space in the drawings. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation, taken from the left of Fig. 1, broken away to save space in the drawings, the operators hand being indicated in dotted lines and the sole of a shoe, together with the fore part and shank edge setters, also being indicated in dotted lines in different positions. Fig. 4 is an enlarged front elevation of the rotary tool-frame viewed as in Fig. 1, partly broken away, a portion of a shoe being indicated therein in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 2 looking downwardly. Fig. 6 is an enlarged section taken on line 6 6 of Fig. 4 looking downwardly. Fig. 7 is a section taken on line 7 7 of Fig. 4.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 20 is a rotary tool which may be used either for trimming the edges of the fore part of a sole or for setting or burnishing the same. Said rotary tool is fast to a shaft 21, journaled in bearings 22 22 in the rotary tool-frame 23. The rotary tool-frame 23 is provided with a vertical handle 24, fast thereto by a bolt 25 and nut 26. The bolt 25, Fig. 7, is screw-threaded atboth ends thereofthe lower end thereof screwed into the rotary tool-frame 23, the upper end into the nut 26, and between said nut and rotary tool-frame the handle 24 and spring-bracket 46 are located and clamped rigidly to said tool-frame,

so that said tool-frame 23, handle 24, and nut 26 are rigidly fastened together. The nut 26 has a cylindrical shank 26 thereon, which projects through and rocks in a rearward. and downwardly extending arm 27. Said arm 27 is rigidly fastened to a rod 28, constituting a rock-shaft. To the rod 28 are fastened two arms 29 29, connected together by a counterbalance-rod 30, upon which is adjustably fastened a counterbalance 31. The rock-shaft 28 is free to rock in a journal-bearing bracket 32, through which said rod 28 passes. Collars 33 33, fast to the rock-shaft 28 at opposite ends, respectively, of the journal-bearing bracket 32, prevent the rock-shaft 28 from moving longitudinally in said journal-bearing bracket and also provide a means whereby said rock-shaft may be adjusted longitudinally thereof in said bracket 32. The bracket 32 is provided with a horizontal pivot 34, extending transversely of and fast to a support 35.

The parts hereinbefore described-viz. the arm 27, rock-shaft 28, and journal-bearing bracket 32-form as a whole a tool-frame carrier 27, upon which the tool-frame 23 is pivoted to rock, as hereinbefore described, in a horizontal plane. I

The support 35 consists of aforked bracketpiece 36, terminating in a vertical cylindrical pivot 37, which extends downwardly into'the upper end of a supportingarm 38. The height of the pivotal pin 34 above the top of the arm 38 is regulated by a collar 39, fast to the vertical pivotal pin 37. The arm 38, Fig. 2, is fast to a rock-shaft 40, journaled to rock in a stationary frame 41, supported upon a base 42. Two downwardly-projecting arms 43 are fast to the rock-shaft 40, the lower end of each of said arms being provided with an enlarged portion which constitutes a counterweight 44. The distance to which the arm 38 and rotary tool-frame 23 can be rocked toward the right, Fig. 2, is limited by a spiral spring45, Figs. 1 and 2. The lower end of said spring is fastened to the bracket 46, said bracket being fast to the rotary tool-frame 23, as hereinbefore described, and the upper end of said spring is fast to a rod 47, fast to the stationary jack-frame 75: The support 35 and arm 38 form together a tool-frame standard 38.

The main driving-shaft 49, Figs. 1, 2, and 5, is journaled in bearings 50 50 upon the frame 41 and is rotated by means of a driving-pulley 51 fast thereto. The cutter-shaft 21 has a pulley 52 fast thereto, to which rotary motion is imparted by a belt 53, driven by a pulley 54, fast to a shaft 55, said shaft 55 being rotated by a pulley 56 fast thereto and driven by a belt 57, said belt 57 being in turn driven by a pulley 58, fast to the main driving-shaft 49. The shaft 55 is journaled' in a horizontal pulley-carrier frame 59, pivoted to rock upon the main driving-shaft 49 and having aflixed thereto a counterweight 60. The end of the pulley-carrier frame 59,in which the shaft 55 is journaled, is connected by a link 61 to the rotary tool-frame 23, the upper end of said link being pivotally attached to said rotary tool-frame by the shaft 21, Figs. 2,v 3, and 6.

The link 61 consists of a tilting frame 62, Figs. 2 and 5, pivotally supported upon the shaft 55 and rigidly fastened to an upwardlyextending bracket 63, said bracket having a a rod 64 fast thereto and extending upwardly therefrom through a hole 65, formed in a yoke 66, through which said rod 64 is free to slide a longitudinally, Figs. 1, 3, and 4. The yoke 66 K is pivotally fastened by screws 67 to a tilting j frame 68, pivoted upon the rotary cutter-shaft The belt 53 is held taut by a spiral compression-spring 69, which encircles the rod 64 and bears at its upper end against a loose collar 7 0, said collar in turn bearing against the under side of a boss formed upon the yoke 66.

The lower end of the spring 69 bears against a collar 71, fast to the rod 64.

It will be seen that the rotary tool-frame 23, frame-carrier 27, tool-frame standard 38, pulley-carrier frame 59, and link 61 form substantially the four sides of a parallelogram, in which the tool-frame 23 and frame-carrier 27 constitute the upper horizontal side, The

frame-standard 38 forms the rear vertical side,

the pulley-carrier frame forms the lower hori zontal side, and the link 61 forms the front vertical side. The rotary tool-frame 23 is pivoted to the upper end of the link 61 by the rotary tool-shaft 21, and the carrier-frame 27 is pivoted to the standard 38 by the pivot 34. The lower end of the link 61 is pivoted to the horizontal pulley -carrier frame 59 by the shaft 55.

The shoe 72 is preferably held in a jack and is clamped by a fore-part holder 73 against a support 74, said support being journaled to rotate in a jack-frame 75 and said holder being forced against the fore part of the shoe by a reciprocatory rod 76. The shoe-holder 73 is mounted upon the rod 76 and has a downwardly-depending arm 77, to which is pivoted at 78 a heel-holder 79. The heelholder 79 is formed at its right-hand end, Fig. 1, to engage the heel of the shoe 72 and at its left-hand end is provided with a corrugated segment 80, which engages a corrugated surface 80 on an arm 81, extending downwardly from and supported upon a collar 82. The collar 82 is fastened to the reciprocatory rod 76 and is detachably fastened by a hook 83 to the fore-part holder 73, it being understood that the fore-part holder 73, heel-holder 79,

arms 77 and 81, and collar 82 are fast to and rotate with the rod7 6. 'The rod 76 slides in a bearing 84 upon the jack-frame and has a reciprocatory motion imparted thereto by a bell-crank lever 85, pivoted at 86 to the jackframe 75. The vertical arm of the bell-crank lever engages a forked bracket 107, rotatably mounted upon the rod 76, said bellcrank lever projecting between the arms of said forked bracket and being rounded on its opposite edges to engage on the right thereof said bracket and on the left a friction-roll 108, journaled to rotate upon said bracket. The bracket'l07 is fastened to the rod 76, in such a manner that said rod is free to rock in said bracket, by a set-screw 109, which projects at its inner end intoa groove 110, formed in the periphery of the rod 76. The pressure of forcing the rod 76 toward the right in order to clamp a shoe to the shoe-holder is secured by a shoulder formed upon the rod 76 and bearing against the right-hand side of the forked bracket 107. The screw 109 keeps the bracket 107 and rod 76 together when the rod 76 is being withdrawn from the shoe or moved toward the left.

A rocking motion is imparted to the lever 85 and through it a reciprocatory motion to the rod 76 and the shoe-holder 73 by a treadlerod 87, which is drawn downwardly by a treadle 88, pivoted at 89 to the base 42. A spring 90, fast at one end to the jack-frame 75 and at the other to a collar fast to the treadle-rod 87, moves said rod upwardly and through the lever 85 moves the rod 76 toward the left, Fig. 1. The jack-frame 75 is fast to a standard '91, which in turn is rigidly fastened to the frame 41.

The fore part of theshoe-sole is trimmed or burnished, as the case may be, by a rotary roll fast to the shaft 21. After the fore part has been finished the edge of the shank portion of the shoe-sole is trimmed or burnished by a smaller rotary tool 92, fast to a shaft 93, Figs. 3 and 4, journaled to rotate in a bearing 94, provided in the rotary tool-frame 23. A rotary motion is imparted to the shaft 93 by a gear 95 fast thereto and meshing into a gear 96, fast to the pulley 52. A hand-rest 97 and a thumb-rest 98, formed upon the bracket 46, in addition to the handle 24, are provided upon the rotary tool-frame 23 to assist the operator in operating the machine, as hereinbefore described.

A rotary polishing-brush 99, fast to a shaft 100, journaled in a bearing 101 upon abracket 102, fast to the jack-frame 75, is provided for cleaning and polishing the shoes after they have been operated upon by the edge trimmer or burnisher, and a rotary motion is imparted to the shaft by a pulley 103, fast thereto and driven by a belt 104, to which motion is imparted by a pulley 105, fast to the driving shaft 49.

The shoe 72 is first jacked by placing the heel of the same upon the heel-holder 7 9and the sole of the fore part against the shoe-support 74, then depressing the treadle 88 until the fore-part holder 73 comes to a bearing against the upper of the shoe and firmly presses the same against the support 74. The operator now grasps the handle 24 with the right hand (shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3) and tips the shoe with the left hand to the posi tion shown in dotted lines 7 2, Fig. 3. He then brings the rotary tool 20 to the position 20 in said figure, pulling said rotary tool 20 forward and downwardly until the periphery of said tool engages the edge of the fore part of the sole of the shoe adjacent to the shank. The swing-frame 106, consisting of the following parts, the tool-frame carrier 27, the standard 38, the pulley-carrier frame 59, and the link 61, will rock upon the pivots 34, 40, 49, 55, and 21 to-allow said rotary tool to be moved forward and downwardly in the manner hereinbefore set forth. The. tool constantly rotating now commences to trim or to burnish the edge of the shoe-sole at the portion of the fore part adjacent to the shank. The operator now rotates the shoe toward the right, Fig. 3, said shoe turning, together with the shoe-holder 73, heel-holder 79, and rod'7 6, from the position 72, Fig. 3, to the position 7 2 Fig. 3. The rotary tool now passes over the toe portion of the shoe-sole. The operator pushes the rotary tool away from him by swinging the swing-frame 106 in the proper direction therefor, and said rotary tool travels from the toe of the shoe to the left-hand portion of the shank of the shoe, the final position of said shoe being shown in dotted lines 72 Fig. 3, the final position of the fore-part tool being shown in dotted lines The operator next trims or burnishes the shank portion by moving the rotary toolcarrier frame 23 and frame-carrier 27 toward the right, Fig. 4, until the shank-tool 92 alines with the edge of the shoe-sole. Holding the shoe in the position indicated in dotted lines 7 2 Fig. 3, the operator carries the shank-tool around the shank of the shoe, as indicated in dotted lines 92 in said figure.

He then tips the shoe forward to the position shown in dotted lines 7 2 and brings the shank-- tool forward to the position indicated in dotted lines 92, thus finally burnishing the edge of the shank of the shoe upon both sides thereof. The heel of the shoe may be trimmed and burnished by substituting another suitable cutter in the place of the cutter 20 and jacking the shoe with the heel uppermost in a manner well known to those skilled in this art. The shoe is then removed and cleaned or polished upon the polishing-wheel 99.

It will be seen and understood that in the operation of the machine hereinbefore described as the rotary tool passes around the edge of the shoe-sole the tool-frame 23 will rock upon the shank 26 of the nut 26, where tool-frame is moved up and down away from and toward, respectively, the center of the rod 7 6 and shoe-support 7a, the frame-carrier 27 will rock upon the pivot 34:, Fig. 2. When the operator moves the tool-frame and the rotary tool toward and away from himself and while the rotary tool is passing along the edge of the shoe-sole at its sides, the swing-frame will rock upon its different pivots-viz, 34:,

w 40, 55, and 21and finally when the operator moves the tool-frame 23 from left to right in order to bring the shank-burnishing tool in alinement with the edge of the shank portion of the shoe-sole the vertical pivot 37, Fig. 2, rocks in the upper end of the arm 38 and permits of this lateral motion of the cutterframe and cutter-frame carrier.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim,and desire by Letters Patent to secure,

1. In a machine of the character described, a swinging frame having four sides, each of said sides pivotally supported at the opposite ends thereof and comprising substantially a parallelogram pivoted to rock in a vertical plane, one of said sides comprising in its con= struction a tool-frame pivoted to swing horizontally upon said swing-frame, a rotary toolshaft journaled upon said tool-frame, and a rotary tool fast to said shaft.

2. In a machine of the character described, a swinging frame having four sides, each of said sides pivotally supported at the opposite ends thereof and comprising substantially a parallelogram pivoted to rock in a vertical plane, one of said sides comprising in its construction a rotary tool-frame pivoted to swing horizontally upon said swing-frame, a rotary tool-shaft journaled upon said tool-frame, and a rotary tool fast to said shaft, said shaft constituting a pivot by which two of the sides of said parallelogram are joined together.

3. In a machine of the character described, a swing-frame having four sides, each of said sides pivotally supported at the opposite ends thereof and comprising substantially a parallelogram pivoted to rock in a vertical plane,the upper horizontal side of said swing-frame consisting of a tool-frame carrier and a tool-frame pivoted to rock horizontally thereon, the front vertical side of said swing-frame consisting of a link, and a rotary tool-shaft constituting a pivot by which said rotary tool-frame and link are joined together.

4. In a machine of the character described, a swing-frame having four sides, each of said sides pivotally supported at the opposite ends thereof and comprising substantially a parallelogram pivoted to rock in a vertical plane,

the upper horizontal side consisting of a rotary tool-frame carrier and a tool-frame pivoted to rock horizontally thereon, the lower horizontal side of said parallelogram constituting a pulley-carrier frame, the front vertical side consisting of an extensible link, a rotary toolshaft constituting a pivot by which said link and rotary tool-frame are joined together, a pulley fast to said shaft, and a pulley journaled upon said pulley-carrier frame in alinement with said first-named pulley.

5. In a machine of the character described, a swing-frame having four sides, each of said sides pivotally supported at the opposite ends thereof a d comprising substantially a parallelogram pivoted to rock in a vertical plane, the rear side of said parallelogram consisting of a pivotally-supported standard, the upper horizontal side of said swing-frame consisting of a tool-frame carrier and a tool-frame pivoted to rock horizontally thereon, said toolframe carrier comprising in its construction a rock-shaft mounted to rock upon said standard, the front vertical side of said swing-frame consisting of a link and a rotary tool-shaft constituting a pivot by which said rotary toolframe and link are joined together.

6. In a machine of the character described, a swing-frame having four sides, each of said sides pivotally supported at the opposite ends thereof and comprising substantially a parallelogram pivoted to rock in a vertical plane, the rear side of said parallelogram consisting of a supporting-standard comprising a pivot ally-supported arm, a frame-carrier support pivoted to rock horizontally upon said arm, and a horizontal pivot extending transversely of said frame-carrier support; the upper horizontal side of said swing-frame consisting of a tool-frame carrier and a tool-frame pivoted to rock horizontally thereon, said tool-frame carrier comprising in its construction a journal-bearing bracket pivoted on said horizontal pivot and a rock-shaft journaled in said bracket and extending transversely thereof;

the front vertical side of said swing-frame consisting of a link, and a rotary tool-shaft constituting a pivot by which said rotary toolframe and link are joined together.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 16th day of December, 1902.

ZO'IIQUE BEAUDRY.

Witnesses:

NORMAN W. STEARNS, CHARLES H. GRIeNoN. 

